Okay, this is the analyzation, so if you didn't read chapter 7 yet, then you could ruin something. Anyway, hope this clears up those parts or characters you might not have known.

I've replaced this and changed something along with an apology. Someone who reviewed pointed out something important that I let slip by because I put it in without even looking into it. Someone I know said they had multiple personalities and someone else confused what that person said with schizophrenia, and without even looking it up, I said Kelly had both. Although it could be argued she has traits from both disorders, I've made the mistake of calling it the same thing. So I give both my apologies for making this mistake, and my gratitude to the anonymous reviewer who pointed this out.

Disclaimer: I don't own Silent Hill.

Analyzation

Section 1: Characters

Part 1, Stacy

Stacy is the only character in the story that isn't connected to Ericka, so I figured I'd explain her first. Stacy was a high school student who came into high school trying to be as popular as she was in middle school. Unfortunately for her, her outgoing and hyperactive personality made her the target of insults and bullying that over the years made her depressed. When she was a little girl, her brother, father, mother, and she had vacationed at Silent Hill. Her parents remember her being so happy back then, so they decide to drive down there for a family vacation to try and get her over her depression.

On the way down, she had decided to drive and let the others sleep since she'd been the one sleeping most of the ride down. She started to think about everything that'd been going on in her life and that distracted her from driving. A car crashed into the passenger side of the car and killed everyone involved except for Stacy.

Stacy originally ran into Silent Hill looking for help for her family, much like Ericka did. The only thing was that the town made her see them (her dead family) no matter where she went, and so she tried to think of a way to make them go away. She figured that since they were going to this town to try and make her happy, that they would leave if she could manage to make herself happy. This clicked in her head and became her main motivation for staying in the town.

This worked for a little until she ran into Ericka. Ericka, being around her age, reminded Stacy of the constant bullying she had gone through with her peers, thus she started to subconsciously hate Ericka (Which is why she threw in 'I hope you die,' without even realizing it in their first conversation). As she continued to run into Ericka, she grew more and more depressed, and so she started to see her family again.

Stacy became depressed and felt incredibly guilty for leaving her family like that. As she finally realizes the entire situation was her fault, her family moved in to kill her for atonement. At least in her prospective. Ericka saw Stacy's death through a different prospective, and that was that she had killed herself. What really happened is up to you.

Part 2: The Haldins

Two simple characters with nothing really to explain. They adopted Ericka at a young age and raised her as their own child.

Part 3: Stephanie Kelly Acton

Kelly has multiple personalities, and was admitted to Alchemilla Hospital when she injured herself through a spasm. While in Alchemilla she was under watch and was eventually determined to be 'mentally unstable' and then transferred to Brookhaven. During her stay in Brookhaven, she met Ericka's biological father. They had a child. Because it had already been predetermined that they were both 'mentally unstable', the child was taken away and put up for adoption.

Kelly has three conflicting personalities. The first that's introduced is the one that shows her true desires and ambitions. Basically her motherly side. The second was cold, and blamed Ericka for her being trapped in Brookhaven. She clearly values Ericka's father more then the other two. The third side was the overwhelming sorrow that built up in Kelly after losing her only child.

Kelly had difficulty naming her child, and this shows through each personality calling her something different. But this really serves no point to the story. Once her child was taken away from her, the motherly personality of Kelly tried as hard as she could to stop the other two from existing so she could have the one thing she wanted more then anything in the world. Her child. Ericka's father told Kelly on several occasions that she was hoping for nothing.

She tried desperately to prove him wrong, and once she triumphed over the other two personalities, she just wanted her child. But Ericka refused her by not understanding. Once she found out that her sole purpose for keeping herself alive was pointless, she decided she could give up in Silent Hill, and disappear forever.

Part 4: Jack

Jack was a long term friend of Ericka's father and they met in Brookhaven, too. Not much was really shared about him aside from that, and he is willing to go out of his way to make Ericka get to her father.

Part 5: Her father

The only character I didn't name. He had traits of schizophrenia, more specifically severe hallucinations. Other traits were apparent, but weren't shown in this story. Brookhaven decided the only course of action was ECT. Not much was really told about him either. For some reason, he believes Ericka would like him if she knew the truth and he held the Haldins hostage. He seemed to think that his experience with Ericka would go differently then Kelly's.

Part 6: Ericka Haldin

A soon-to-be junior at college, Ericka was a nineteen year old girl who was pretty carefree. It was only when Jack appeared in her life and her parents decided to take her to Silent Hill that her life became a living hell and she learned of her true parents. The daughter of two mentally ill patients at Brookhaven hospital, one has to wonder why she came out so normal.

Section 2: Other Things

Part 1: The movie

The movie was pretty much just a film of Ericka's past and her parents' history. More of Kelly's history is told then her fathers. As she got further to finding the final stop, Brookhaven hospital, more of the film was shone.

Part 2: The Endings

Have fun interpreting these anyway you want.

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That's it. Sorry if I missed something that you wanted to know about. I'm pretty sure I got everything, but I might've missed something. So, thanks for reading Silent Hill: ECT if you did, and please review!